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Topic: Great Depression

Vintage Revolutionary War print of General George Washington praying at Valley Forge (Getty Images/John Parrot/Stocktrek Images)

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Mike Lofgren
Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Sean Astin (Merrick Morton/HBO)

History behind "Perry Mason" grocer feud

Ashlie D. Stevens
Joe Biden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A major renewal of the middle class?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
(Julia Gartland / Food52)

So why are people making water pies?

Valerio Farris - Food52
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A supporter of President Trump carries a Confederate flag in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Our fragile democracy is nothing new

Alasdair S. Roberts - The Conversation
Mailed-in ballots sit in US Postal Service bins inside the office (Alex Edelman/Getty Images)

The fallout of a crippling USPS

Patty Heyda - The Conversation
Unemployed workers march in Trenton, New Jersey, 1936.

Greed wins as labor loses power

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
(Getty/Joe Raedle)

Cities face COVID-19 and bankruptcy

Kevin Ward, Mark Davidson - The Conversation
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Large corporations getting big bailouts, while small businesses get bupkiss (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Robert Reich on monopoly mayhem

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
People Line Up For Unemployment Applications During COVID-19 Crisis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

US likely to turn left as economy tanks

Matthew Rozsa
Protestors affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests wave signs and banners. At right: A rally during the Great Depression (AP/LOC)

The Great Depression, coronavirus style

Nomi Prins - TomDispatch.com
A man wearing a surgical face mask walks passed closed shops (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

U.S. Unemployment rates reaches 14.7%

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Chris Hedges (Photo by: Kim Hedges)

Chris Hedges: Yes, it can get worse

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Chart speaks volumes about Trump crisis

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Tattered American flag flapping in ominous sky (Getty Images)

Sad state of US, global economic affairs

Richard Phillips - The Globalist
Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

We need a new (somewhat green) New Deal

Amanda Marcotte
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Democratic presidential candidate entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks during the Climate Forum at Georgetown University, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Yang's income raffle isn't unprecedented

Edwin Amenta - The Conversation
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AP/Cliff Owen)

The greening of the New Deal

Steve Fraser - TomDispatch.com
(Getty Images/ iStock/ SAUL LOEB/AFP)

Companies are escaping Trump's tariffs

Lydia DePillis - ProPublica
Famed author, physician, controversialist Dr. Benjamin Spock at his New York City home in July 1974. (AP Photo/Jerry Mosey) (AP Photo/Jerry Mosey)

Dr Spock’s timeless lessons in parenting

Richard Gunderman - The Conversation
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(AP/John Locher/Getty/Salon)

Recession warning sign is here

Alex Henderson - Alternet
(AP Photo, File)

FDR's forest army

Benjamin Alexander - The Conversation
The remnants of a destroyed home stand more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island on October 6, 2017. (Getty/Mario Tama)

Epic response to an epic disaster in '36

Minrose Gwin
Civilian Conservation Corps boys work on an adobe building at Mission La Purisima Concepcion de Maria Santisima (AP/Ward Wicart)

Pay for Puerto Rico, not Trump's wall

Matthew Rozsa
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